I recently upgraded my desktop system with a much larger hard drive.
The old hard drive is now in an external hard drive enclosure (the
kind made by Metal Gear Box) and is plugged in to a USB port. The old
drive has these partitions
Microsoft Windows XP -- 30 Gb
Fedora Core 4 -- 30 Gb
My problem is, I can see the /boot partition on the drive, but I
cannot see the / (root) partition, and I'm want to get at my former
home directory because I have some files there I forgot to back up.
I'm wondering if that partition was named something like:
'/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' and mounted on /.
Thanks for any help!
Bob Cochran
You are right that the / partition is contained in the LVM. I believe
you need to run lvm and make the partition active, assign a mountpoint
for the lvm, then mount the lvm.
The label that the old hard drive is using is probably / which is the
label most likely used on your newly installed system.
I recovered my previous installation using a USB enclosure and
activating the LVM. It was a long time back and useful information on
activating the LVM was upplied by someone on this list.
Adding USB enclosure - LVM to subject.
Re: Access Old Home Directory ... > I recently upgraded my desktop system with a much larger hard drive. ... > old hard drive is now in an external hard drive enclosure (the kind ... > My problem is, I can see the /boot partition on the drive, but I cannot ... And are the appropriate device files being created, ... (Fedora)
Access Old Home Directory ... I recently upgraded my desktop system with a much larger hard drive. ... The old hard drive is now in an external hard drive enclosure and is plugged in to a USB port. ... My problem is, I can see the /boot partition on the drive, but I cannot see the / partition, and I'm want to get at my former home directory because I have some files there I forgot to back up. ... (Fedora)
When LVM Goes Bad ... I believe LVM is the default on Fedora partitioning now, at least I didn't love it that much that I would have selected it, and it is on all my boxes now. ... However LVM makes less sense on, say, a laptop which has and will only ever have a single 2.5" HDD for storage that is permanently available with the laptop. ... The resulting symptom was that the partition contents were no longer recognized as containing a logical volume or a volume group, nor pvscan, although pvdisplay could see it was a physical volume if pointed directly at the partition. ... Whether this explained the loss of LVMness or a subsequent logical brain damage that happened elsewhere did it I don't know. ... (Fedora)
Re: Hosed Grub with the push of a button ... occupies part of the LVM.... I don't think the developers of the program counted on some crazy button changing the partition table with one touch. ... Did it write over that portion of the disk or did it actually format the portion and place information from some storage chip on the mother board. ... My guess would be that the motherboard has a chip inside that has a compressed image of what was originally installed on the computer, like what a install CD would have. ... (Fedora)
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